Hey EJ Your Mag

[JimD]

EJ,
Any way to be able to enlarge for print the monthly tide and solunar table in the electronic mag? My eyes are as bad as McBride"s and I have a hard time reading the chart in fine print that comes out of the printer.

From reading your other posts on solunar tables I am guessing that you reprint JA Knight's information in chart form.

Sure seems like a lot of people have their version of the solunar or prime times tables.

[EJ@TSFMag]

Dear Jim D: R. A. Knight's theory puts forth...minor feed periods coincide with the moon on the horizon, lasting 1.0 to 1.5 hours following moon rise and before moon set. Major feeding periods 1.0 to 1.5 hours either side of the moon being directly overhead or directly underfoot. The use of minor and major nomenclature in no way implies the intensity of the feeding activity, it relates only to the duration.

Using Mike McBride's idea, we had a custom software created to project feeding times on a daily basis for the full calendar year using NOAA's standard sunrise/sunset/moon rise/moon set and moon phase data. The program is based upon local time CST or DST (whichever applies) at longtitude Houston, TX. While this would indicate that Sabine would in actuality be a few minutes earlier than the scheduled time and Matagorda, POC, Corpus, Port Isabel etc. would each happen a few minutes progressively later as longtidue varies, the feed times are difficult to assess to such a finite degree. I have noticed that depending local atmospheric and water conditions the feeding periods may occur anywhere from right-on-time to thirty minutes late - and not happen at all.

As for the size/legibility of the words on the page...they are what they are...sorry!

As you have noted here as well as other's comments on previous posts, there is a surprising variation of feeding times published in solunar tables. Ditto tide charts. In the interest of accuracy we built-in the CST/DST compensator and use strictly NOAA tide and sun/moon data.

In addition to variations in solunar data, one thing that always puzzled me was tide correction factors where the Galveston Channel tide was the basis for predicting events at Pass Cavallo, Port Aransas, etc., etc. Somehow adding or subtracting a certain number of minutes or even hours never enabled me to matriculate two tides into three or three into four. I think the greatest error I ever witnessed was one Texas regional magazine that advertised the full moon to occur two days later than the actual event (according to NOAA.)

EJ

[JimD]

EJ-

Thanks,

Great answer.

"Knight's theory puts forth...minor feed periods coincide with the moon on the horizon, lasting 1.0 to 1.5 hours following moon rise and before moon set." This seems to be the most interesting variable in all the different charts you see. Some start the minor period at the time of rise and set others add time to each to start earlier. Some start moon over and under at that minute. There are some different ideas out there including a variable start time before the moon above and below.

Yours is the best.

Guess I can buy me and Mike one of those big Magnifying glasses if he has the electronic version to or we can try a good crystal scotch glass to see if will act as a good magnifying glass.

Did you ever get your experiment done?

[EJ@TSFMag]

Jim D - Being an inveterate tinkerer and inventor by nature I would need you to draw a tighter circle before I could answer.

[Captain Dave]

I think they are fine and understand them well. I do want to compliment the October edition which I finally received October 1..LOL .. It was packed with great article that were of interest from page 1 to the end WTG EJ.. I will renew my Subscription...

[blackmagic]

Is it just me or are the mags coming out tlater than they used too?

[EJ@TSFMag]

Captain Dave and blackmagic: I cannot speak for other publications but unless there is a glitch in the production sequence (doesn't happen often) our magazine mails on the third Friday...ie October 2011 issue mailed to subscribers on September 16.

Thanks for the kind words on the content but it's really our writers who deserve the credit. Send them an email or jingle their phone to let them know what you would like to see in coming issues.

EJ

[cottonpicker]

Mine show up in the mail 1-2 days after they are on the rack at Bucky's. Kind of frustrating.

[JimD]

EJ, This summer we were talking stingrays and iirc you were going to do some more research.

I do love the electronic copy. You have done wonders the last couple of years to get it easy to read and use. I will just have to fig out how to copy and blow up the solunar table larger.

I would like to see some more "how to", bait rigging tricks, and other ideas like you were doing in the mag a couple of years ago.
You posted up Shane Mesche's article on how to redo and clear coat top water baits which was great.

How about a Tip section with a free hat or such for readers that send in their trick or tip or how to article and you use them in the mag?

Could I get you to PM me a copy of your actual solunar Numbers for September or October so I can fig out what my phone app is doing? The phone app is what got me off on why the data is so different for the many different programs you see out there.

Your post makes a lot more sense than you see or read on the assorted sites but then the paperer work on some say one thing and the actual posted or generated info is quite different. I am sure that most of the programmers are not die hard fishermen either and that effects their programming on some of these sites.

Thanks,

Jim

[Seveler]

How about an online version designed for tablets? This way we eliminate the shipping and you can make the font whatever you want on you computer.

Zinio is an example of an app where you can get all sorts of magazines. Look at the Houston Chronicle news app. I can leave early to go fishing and still read the paper.